Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The pirates of Lake Michigan.
- The 16th-century dance plague.
- Down Syndrome isn’t just cute.
- A history of blood transfusions.
- The “headhunters” of Coney Island.
- Help preserve history in just one click.
- The gendered world of 1950s job ads.
- Male sexual health in the Middle Ages.
- WWI home remedies and miracle cures.
- The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case.
- The abandoned wheelchairs of Minnesota.
- Prisoners are dying of 19th-century ailments.
- The history of racial moral panic over disease.
- Is it time to admit that we are in a new epoch?
- Stanley Kubrick’s photos of NYC in the 1940s.
- Mapping the age of every building in Manhattan.
- “Coffee Jerks”: an analysis on 50s and 60s coffee ads.
- Explore the world of historic New Orleans newspapers.
- When Republican’s were blue and Democrats were red.
*Feature Image: Wellcome Library, London, Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio and served as executive editor from 2012 to 2021. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.
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